Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

Martin Amis

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

Kathleen Quinlan

At this point in my career, Apollo 13 is a million light years away.

Paul Davies

The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.

Carl Sagan

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.

Iain Banks

I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

Pierce Brosnan

I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.'

Jennifer Rodriguez

He'll say one sentence and I'll say one sentence. It takes me forever to pop out that one sentence. It's horrible. I could kill him now.

Rob Zombie

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

Richelle Mead

Since...since when?" I finally managed to ask. "Since...forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious.

Richelle Mead

You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that.

Richelle Mead

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.” Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.

William Howard Taft

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

Sarah Dessen

Everyone had a forever.

Sarah Dessen

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.

Brian Kenny

I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.

Jimmy Smith

I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.

Jonny Greenwood

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

Jacques Plante

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

Katy Perry

I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

Bea Arthur

So what does it all mean? You become a popular TV personality. Fifteen million viewers weekly. Top ratings.

Stephany Smith

Whenever you miss three lay-ups, and fifteen free-throws you're not going to win the game.

E. L. Konigsburg

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

Alfred Bester

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.